Pro Fortran Compiler Suite

The Absoft Pro Fortran Compiler Suite for Macintosh OS X is the world's #1 Fortran tool kit because it is the only environment specifically designed for Fortran development on Macintosh. Included with the tool kit are both Fortran 95 and C/C++ compilers, a powerful IDE, industry leading Fx2 debugging environment, math and VAX/Unix libraries, graphics and free techical support. Fully Panther compatible, Pro Fortran v9.0 also supports IBM XL Fortran and XL C/C++ as drop in compilers. Mix, match development, Fortran/C++ or Absoft/IBM in a single environment. Optional third party tools such as VAST can be shared between Absoft and IBM compilers.

What is new in this release:

• New optimizations yielding up to 25% better performance
• The new compiler includes significant performance improvements including:
  • Caching improvements
  • More intrinsic function in-lining
  • More advanced loop unrolling
• The ability to use a BLAS tuned to the machine for better matrix multiplication (matmul)
  intrinsic performance
• Improved cache usage when sparse arrays are passed to functions or subroutines
• Other improvements to several existing optimizations
• The inclusion of IEEE_ARITHMETIC, IEEE_EXCEPTIONS, and IEEE_FEATURES modules
• GUI Support for setting MRWE window size preferences
• Absoft Editor (AE)
  • Customizable print Headers and Footers
  • Convert to upper or lower case commands
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
  • Supports XL Fortran and XL C/C++ as drop in compilers
• Fx2 Debugging Solution

Requirements:

Macintosh OS X 10.2 or later (G4 or G5 recommended)